The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1887-02-05


s1er more or less The subso too, carries its
waters loaded with impurities long distances.
Visiting friend once in the northern section
of the city and admiring the elevated site on
question, among Others, how often he found it
necessary to clean his sink. He replied, never;
its contents vanish somewhere. Mentioning this
circumstance to DR.. James A. Stuart an honored
member of this Board, he replied: 1t finds
lodgment in our low grounds. can snow you
numbers of houses, said he, whose cellars are
near. 1t moves glacier-like towards the basin.
How to remedy these evils is the all-1mportant
question. Our well waters are becoming as strong
as our whiskey and quite as hurtful ana mucn
harder to take. The very idea is revolving! Let
each resident in our towns, therefore, be his own
sanitary inspector. Let the grounds within and
around his dwelling be kept ScrupulouSly clean,
both in winter and in summer. Let the wells be
cleaned twice or thrice year, made deeper, their
sbaNe Tas reae be sraee 4 HIS Will insure against in
flow and overflow to some tXtent. But these
changes are at the best mere makeshlftS. The
only safe plan is to make radical change and
this WOuld be to close the wells, now in use, and
to construct in their place arteslan or driven
wells. have been in correspondence with three
separate contractors for making these Wells ana
have obtained the following information: That
their cost will vary according to the material
penetrated, whether it be sand, clay rotten rock,
slate rock limestone, gneiss or granite. That the
cost IS further influenced by the quality and dl-
ameter of the pipes, whether OF wrought, cast or
galvanized iron, the diameter running from an
the cost is no greater than for dug wells That
for small wells it is not necessary to bore deep IN
a rock to obtain an abundant supply OF pure wa
struck sufficient to supply large town az
moderate depth Of bore. Pipes cost from Sl.5O
per toos 70 soT pfr roh 11US IRON Is the best ma
teriel. That the bore can be commenced at the
bottom of an old well and piped up, at cores
ponding saving of cost. That there is no natural
fiow unless at very great depths-thew water being
forced to the surface by means OF a pump, at an
additional cost of from SIS to S25 per pump. That
limestone and slate rock can be bored Tor nall
the cost for gneiss or granite. That pipes from
two inches to six inches in diameter Will supply
from gallons to 800 gallons per minute. That
the estimated cost of an arteSan well Tor Tow
sontown for private use allowing twenty rect OF
dirt and thirty to forty feet OF Eock g9SIs @ %a
| sary to go to this depth in rock-ten to hfteen
feet being sometimes amply suthcient to OBTAIN
| good flow. That for large artesian well capa-
| BILE of supplying TowsontoWn with an aDundance
of pure water for domestic purposes and for the
accident of fires, it is estimated that well
through one hundred feet of rock, with steam
| apparatus complete, will supply from 80 gallons
to 300 gallons per minute, according to the stroke
of the pump, at cost of from Sl2O0 to Sl50U and
that reservoir 40 feet by 40 feet, IN brick ana
cement, will cost $500. A ten-nch main and pipes
down to two inches at from $1.55 per foot TO 10
cents per foot, allowing seven miles OF streets
will in addition MAKE IKE 9 l9ta Tin oil ye members
| to each family would make water rent OF 5000
| to each family per annum, to pay the interest," on
Z
this estimate is too high, but give it as basis
| to show its feasibility. 49,
Near Boonsboro', Washington county, Nd, is
an artesian well 80 feet Deep pipe 5H inches cast
| iron. through limestone, flow 500 gallons per
minute. which cost S247. AT Scotland, Franklin
county, Pa, is well 156 feet deep. through lime
stone 5% pipe flow, 200 gallons per minute, which
cost $72S. Mr. James A. Gary's well, Catonsville
| rs feet deep, pipe inches, flow 56 gallons per
| minute, through grGn'te, cost S3Io. Mr Jonn inl
Gilrs well, Catonsville, wrought-lron pipe IN
ches flow 60 gallons per minute, through 4o 1eet
of earth and So feet Of granite, with pump, cost
Let the citizens not only of Towsontown, but
| of other towns organize stock companies by acts
of incorporation, issue bonds and construct sucn
wells and we will have one fertlle cause OF as 1
| case that of bad water, removed from our midst.
Let the water closets be raised several 1eet nign
above the earth's surface, the earth holes hlled
| and proper-szed box substituted; the boxes 70
he made of inch and half plank, 9gGteT-t1ght !
shelving in on all sides towards the Dottom ana
| furnished with rope handles at their long ends,
and with slides (runnerS) on the bottom; covers
divided in the centre and fastened with hinges
| two boxes for each closet; the empty one kept
| filled with water to insure Its Delng Water-ugnC
and ready for use when the full one is being re-
moved: the contents sprinEled daily with a
shovelful or more Of dry dirt, ashes or chiorlde
| of lime. -,,,,, 90 +,,o CON
itary officers are good, but are too sma and un-
wieIdly and should be supplied with tops Wnen
being moved. The plan pursued IN IoWSontoWn
and Elsewhere of emptyfng IN broad daylight, the
one-inch rattletraps now in use into barrels, and
| stopping these barrels through our streets Is
aboninable and should not be allowed.
| Prof Tonry's analysis of well NO: l, TowSon-
town has verified the opinion OF Santar1anS tnaC
| cemented vaults will not hold their contents.-
The corrosive materials generated through pu-
trefective changes have eaten away the cement
and honeycombed the stone, and the Hault near ear
well No j is no longer waterproof. Bricks Tor
| vaults are also worthless, as they will absorb
| their own bulk of moisture.
letter from DIR. A. N. Bell, editor of the san
| itariuan, New York city, says: ITO render brick
absolutely water and gas proof mix equal parts
of asphalt and coal tar, and after bringing tne
mixture to boiling heat DIP tne prlcks IN wi1a
| a pair of tongs and lay up in linear courses.
| little less certain way without extraordinary
pains in first thoroughly drying the walls ais Oh
| either brick or cement, is to lay on with broom
| this boiling hot mixture so long as any Is TAKEN
| up by the porous surfaces.
| This last method will do for parties who have
already built vaults IN cement & or featsd n the
| above manner. Let the floors OF the stables De
| laid in thick oak plank, fitted Water-tlgnt, on
| SLIGHT incline furnished with cutters, to catch
| the fluid dejections, and these again received
| into water-tght boxes. The manure itself to be
| stored in proper boxes furnished with sheds to
| keep out the rain. The soakage from these two
| causes is immense during year, and have mere
| tofore been entirely overlooked and neglected;
| Let the house drains be tiled and subjected tG
| FREQUENT fushingS and occasionally dlslnfected
| Let their contents be allowed to hitter through
| headless barrel, the bottom OF which is perfora-
| fed with auger holes, the bottom sunk in the
ground and filled with alternate layers of gravel
| dirt lime and charcoal and to be OCCASIONALLY re
| neWed. Let pig-pens be utterly banlshed. lie,
| the garbage force be under the controI OF % tnt
sanitary officers, as the local sanitary law OF Bal
| timore county requires it to be, and sutholen
| number of men be selected whose sole duty is u
| attend to this business and not parties otherwise
engaged who delegate their Office to 1rresponsl
Section of the Act of 1884 says explicitly
That the County Commissioners of Baltimore
| county be and they are hereby authorized to pro
vide a sufficient force of men and carts for the re
moval OF garbage. ashes and all other 0fdt from
such parts of WOodberry, TowSontown. WaVer
ly Canton, Clifton and Charles Street EXTENDED
and their 0cinites, as may be necessary an me Ju0g
naent of the sanitary officers to employ, and tina
the said sanitary officers shall be and they ar
hereby authorized and empowered to have c0ntfC
of this force, and to report any failure or delln
quency on the part of said force to the SAID Coul
ty Commissioners.
Has their Judgment ever been asked or thel
| control allowed? More than this have sanltar
| officers ever been appointed for Canton Cnfto
| and Charles Street extended? 1t is true by som
oversight the salaries of the sanitary officers 10
fixed by the law. But the officers were designs
ted by law for these places and by implicatio
could have been appointed and paid Tor their SCI
vices as the section just quoted plainly shows
The act of 1884 is supplementary to the act
7 ulations'' of the places named In the act. Th
County Commissioners are not 1lhberal IN the
expenditures for the benefit OF Its Citizens as tr
Annual Statement OF the Expenses OF BaI5lmoi ALL
!, county, for the fiscal year ending May, 1885, WI
show-salaries paid to sanitary officers amour
r to $963. .32-fOr removal of garbage, cleaning an
reparing alley, S., ,427 50-tota for sanitation St
+ 990.82. But the county is large and the demand
: for sanitary expenses are yearly increasing ar
o what we desire is a judicious expenditure
}. money under intelligent sanitary supervision.
= The laws give us this supervision and we na'
the right to demand it, believing it will be for Il
s greater good Of the people. II the garbage ma